Austin’s got talent, and the potential to develop a lot more. Hence, it comes perhaps as no surprise that it was named Monday as one of 17 “talent hubs.”

Each of those communities is getting $350,000 to help boost education and training beyond high school. Funding comes from the Indiana-based Lumina Foundation in partnership with the Michigan-based Kresge Foundation.

Some museums, libraries, colleges and other cultural institutions in Texas and other states and territories sustained damage to their collections from recent hurricanes. It’s not widely known, but the National Endowment for the Humanities can help.

Emergency grants of up to $30,000 are available from the federal agency to preserve documents, books, photographs, art works, historical objects, sculptures and structures damaged by the hurricanes and subsequent flooding.

This time, for the University of Texas, it’s personal. That’s the inevitable conclusion that springs from the pages of UT’s court papers submitted Monday in a lawsuit challenging its race-conscious admissions program.

If you tune into the Longhorn Network on Saturday evening, don’t expect to watch sports. But you will see another spectacle: the spring commencement of the University of Texas, including an address by the main speaker, …